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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From Facebook, Halifax Forum Community Association says Fillmore has asked Halifax Hawks board to help him change council’s decision on redevelopment of the Forum.

MEDIA RELEASE STATEMENT: From The Halifax Forum Community Association Sept. 16, 2026

Mayor Fillmore is at it again, behind closed doors.

Mayor Andy Fillmore has asked the Halifax Hawks Board of Directors to help him change Regional Council’s decision on redevelopment of the Halifax Forum. Mayor Fillmore has been advocating that the Forum land is too valuable to be used as community and recreation space. He wants the Forum land to be sold or leased to land developers. Council disagreed, and in March of this year voted to proceed with the Forum redevelopment. Construction on the new Forum is scheduled to begin next summer with the new facility opening in late 2030.

For their role, the Halifax Hawks have decided to abide by Mayor Fillmore’s wishes. They are planning to launch a media campaign to halt the redevelopment in the coming days with the goal of pressuring councilors who voted in favour of the Forum’s redevelopment.

“Councillors and residents of the municipality deserve transparency, not back room deals from the Mayor”, said Paul Card, Chair of the Halifax Forum Community Association.

Contact:
Paul Card, Chair HFCA by direct message for interviews

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#HalifaxForum #Halifax #Redevelopment #MorethanARink #EventSpace #Community #Recreational #MediaRelease

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Two guaranteed things 47’s social media gatekeeper won’t print off for him this morning: Liberals win three byelections, and this cartoon.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Canada, Lake Ontario also comes in chocolate flavour. Much nicer than orange sour.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Nova Scotia - and other provinces - need to bring in produce labelling similar to Ontario’s, which mandates clear place of origin signs. An easy thing for the Houston gov’t to do. Otherwise, I expect other big retailers will follow Loblaw’s lead. Ontario rules here: www.ontario.ca/page/regulat...

ontario.ca

Regulatory requirements for produce in Ontario

Learn about requirements for produce under Ontario Regulation 119/11, including food safety, label, packaging, advertising and misrepresentation.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Hoekstra petition is now the 5th most supported e-petition ever but has a big climb to rank #1. Top 3: * Call non-confidence vote in Trudeau gov’t (387,487) * Revoke Elon Musk’s dual 🇨🇦 citizenship (376,994) * Demand Israel/Palestine ceasefire, aid for Gaza (286,719) Full list shorturl.at/nAG0m

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Search - Petitions

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Police in Amsterdam are asking the public to help ID a man who suffered a catastrophic brain event 3 yrs ago & can’t tell them who he is. He’s likely Canadian or American, was a street magician, Buddhist & some locals knew him as Chris the Canadian. Scroll link for English version shorturl.at/6AhcU

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Een heel leven maar geen naam: wie herkent deze man?

Wie is ‘’Lucky?’’ Die vraag houdt het Amsterdamse Cold Case team al drie jaar bezig nadat een “onbekende” man in het ziekenhuis belandt. Al snel blijkt dat iedere weg naar zijn identiteit doodloopt. D...

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It was the first time since 2010 a band from outside the UK won the title – with Canada’s Simon Fraser University Pipe Band beating 211 bands from 14 countries, including 125 from Scotland.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

From a public post from his sister: the poor soul who ran through Hwy 102 traffic till he was hit by a truck Fri. was suffering fr severe depression brought on by brain injuries from his pro boxing career. I hope the media writes about him (he’s on life support, she said) & why the system failed him

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

For the news sites I looked at that don’t have this up yet, eight hours after it was announced: Long-term care workers reach tentative agreement, will return to work as early as Monday

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There’s a Save Our Libraries read-in happening at 1 p.m. today outside Tory MLA John Lohr’s office in Kentville. Libraries are places where knowledge, imagination and community are respected and nurtured - we need more spaces like this, not fewer.

A Facebook post from Gillian Yorke says: Join me this afternoon beginning at 1:00pm for a read-in at John Lohr’s office (347 Main Street, Kentville). Demonstrations against government actions don’t have to be loud to be effective, but they do require people. Bring a book, bring your chair and bring your outrage at the attack on culture in Nova Scotia.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Power outage affecting all the traffic lights at Windsor St, exchanges. You-go-I-go madness over all those lanes/four-way intersection.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Or, better yet, just a president no one wants to shoot.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Some last-minute garden beds in the Clayton Park area’s community garden. (the form mentions living in this area but they’ve taken ppl from outside of Clayton Park before). Link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A screengrab of a Facebook post that says a few spots have opened up for the season at the Birdland Community Garden, which is in D.J. Butler Park on Flamingo Drive. It’s $30 for a fenced raised bed (no deer!) and includes water, compost and use of lots of garden tools. We also have a seed library

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Quite the ❤️ for Premier Houston from Canada’s fossil fuel queen.

A Facebook post from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith reads:
Premier Tim Houston and I are working closely together to build a stronger, more self-reliant Canada.

Alberta and Nova Scotia see eye to eye on the need to develop our natural resources, grow our economy, and reduce reliance on foreign energy. Today’s roundtable centered on ensuring we match oil and gas expertise here in Alberta with new opportunities in Nova Scotia’s onshore natural gas sector. Special thanks to Minister Brian Jean for putting today together.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A drone that brought food to Ukrainian Defenders on positions, brought back passengers - a cat and dog. They flew 12 kilometers during their evacuation. The Defenders of 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade are taking care of them.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Now is the time to show us your good, America. Get rid of Trump and stop the bombs.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

ICYMI, unpaywalled Globe article from two weeks ago. Anyone under the command of an insane war criminal should not be allowed to use Canadian airspace. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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U.S. military aircraft using Canadian airspace to refuel en route to Middle East

Long-standing NORAD agreement does not require the U.S. to ask permission from Canada to do so

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.” - Garrett M. Graff, author/historian

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The real focus of stories about this Trump post should be about his rapidly escalating unfitness to be president. Hopefully some major U.S. media outlet will have the courage. He needs to be removed immediately.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

1. Photojournalism is so, so important. Pictures really are worth 1000 words. 2. We don’t need to do stylistic photo shoots of fascist pricks who regret nothing!

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The last of the magnificent “Trimates” - the trio of women who dedicated their lives to studying/helping the great apes - has died. Lithuanian-Canadian Biruté Mary Galdikas was never as famous as Goodall or Fossey but her work was groundbreaking. 2023 interview: www.pressenza.com/2023/12/biru...

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Biruté Mary Galdikas: The Great Forgotten One

A lifetime dedicated to the defence of orangutans and their habitat. Everyone knows the popular Jane Goodall, who has won many awards for her work but who

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Tim Houston posted his congratulations on social media in 2022 and 2024 when Nova Scotia native Ben Proudfoot won each of his Oscars. Crickets so far on Tamara and Shane.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“When we met with (Coun.) Morse, she told us it would take a “very compelling argument” to vote against staff’s recommendation, as though community memory and historical significance – something required by HRM’s street-renaming ordinance – aren’t compelling enough.” web.archive.org/web/20260313...

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Opinion: Lynwood Drive bears the story of Halifax’s Lebanese diaspora. Renaming it is short-sighted

At its heart, this story illustrates all that is lost when bureaucratic decisions overlook immigrant histories embedded in a place

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Since one of Trump-aligned/Netanyahu stan U.S. mega-billionaire Larry Ellison’s Oracle subsidiaries is already getting $365 million from Nova Scotia for its digital health records system, you’d think he could have let us have the sailboat race he co-founded as a freebie.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gas prices going up again tonight at midnight in Nova Scotia, says the NSUARB. nserbt.ca/sites/defaul...

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A community group I belong to has a website hosted on Wix but on renewal the price will go from US$276 to US$378. Can anyone recommend a cheaper option? Preferably Canadian.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Even the shoppers at my local Giant Tiger are talking about Kristi Noem’s firing. This must be big!

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I was reading a post from a N.S. politician that had that odd AI feel to it - overly general, prose like a dime-store paperback, clipped sentences - so I ran it through an AI detector, and bingo. Did a few more posts & seems he uses AI a lot. Not naming in case I’m wrong - but yuck and be wary.

Screen shot of results from an AI detector that declares there’s 100% chance the text of a Facebook post was AI generated.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Applications are open for the community garden I belong to in the Birdland/Clayton Park area if anyone is interested. $30 gets you a fenced (deer-proof!) 4x8 raised plot, water, manure, gardening tools, some free seeds if you want, and lots of helpful advice if you’re a beginner tinyurl.com/2dxmyrp9

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Apply today to reserve your garden plot

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

praying they don't fix the headline www.kctv5.com/video/2026/0...

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

NSUARB using interrupter clause at midnight to push Nova Scotia gas prices up 8.9 cents a litre; diesel going up 7.7 cents.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A really interesting 🧵. Well worth your time.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2026

Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5

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Fact-check: In Trump’s Case for an Attack on Iran, False or Unproven Claims

Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Halifax billionaire John Risley - in the news recently for financial woes - has put his south-end mega-mansion on the market for $14.9 million. www.royallepage.ca/en/property/...

royallepage.ca

Check out this listing

5964 Emscote Drive , Halifax, NS B3H 1B3

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I now envy the many Canadians who started drinking during the pre-game.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This actually appears in @nytimes.com morning newsletter: Heinous crimes against young girls referenced as “ick” and apparently the Epstein files are so large and sprawling that “it can be difficult to understand exactly what they tell us, except that (Epstein) had a lot of powerful friends.” 1/2

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Unity In Defiance @unityindefiance.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚨BREAKING 😳 The Wall Street Journal is reporting there is a whistleblower complaint so sensitive against Tulsi Gabbard that it is locked in a safe and the Trump Administration does not know how to notify Congress about it.

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Pam Sword 🇨🇦 @pamsword.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This scoop deserves a lot more views. “The flurry of awards for bravery, ethics & integrity, and outstanding service were quietly approved … last May, more than two years after an inquiry slammed the force for failing to stop the gunman during a 13-hour rampage.”

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